NOTES

•of the British regime, to be disposed of by the d
Magistrate and Collector, so called because he he
maintain Jaw and order, and also to collect all Goverr
dues and demands. Gradually !ndian assistants wer<
pointed and were called ' deputy magistrate and eductc
more briefly ' deputy collector'. In the old days this
aimost to be the highest office to which Indians could <
in Government service. (See also note 105).

287. Higher services used to be reserved for Europ
but some Indians used to be taken into them for s^
reasons and qualifications. It was regarded as a
privilege to be selected to those higher jobs.

288- Mr. J. Ross-Scott retained his interest in Theos
to the last, and I remember his visits to the Theosoj:

Conventions at Benares. He belonged to the civil se
and rose to a high position in the Judiciary. He was the
in-law of the famous Mr. A. 0. Hume, also of the Ir
Civil Service, and popularly known in India as the ' fath
the Indian National Congress \ Mr. Hume was amonc
earliest members of The Theosophical Society, and r
matter of sorrow to many that he later quarrelled
Madame Blavatsky and Col. Olcott, the founders of
Society.

259. The highest Judicial Court in the little provinc
Oudh used to be called the ' Judicial Commissioner's Co
Now it has been raised to the status of a Chief Court.

290. A Deputy Collector is transferred from di:

to district. He scarcely remains at one place for more
three years. My father during his nine years of ser\
served in almost as many districts. (See also notes
and 286).

29/. My father was sentenced to a year's simple
prisonment for refusing to give security for keeping the pe